The DUCHESS ACQUITTED: Or, The TRUE CAUSE of the MAJORITY on the WESTMINSTER ELECTION. SOME strive to wound the virtuous name Of De-n-re's, Dunn's fame, Thofe beauteous, peerless pair; And all the toiling earnest throng, Let's celebrate in tuneful fong, The brunette and the fair. When charms conspire, and join their aid, What mortal man is not afraid? Who can unmov'd remain ? What heart is fafe, whose vote secure, Let Slander, with her haggard eye, Than beauty's force and mighty pow'r, Firm resolution melts away, And Falsehood seems as fair. Some fay false arts and base chicane; Who could have fuch withstood? Ev'n Wray himself, if fo caress'd, Let no one dare, with lips profane, And her redoubted shrine. Tune-Come, ye lads who wish to shine. COME, ye fons of Freedom, come, Repair unto the banner, And points the path of Honour. Boldly push, the cause maintain, And Wilkes supports Prerogative, Yet, steady, we'll for FOX huzza! St. Then Britons come, intrepid fouls, Te veniente diæ, te decente canebat. WERE I to write, no man should grace the page, Her eye ne'er swells with precedence of place, 512 The DUCHESS ACQUITTED: Or, The TRUE CAUSE of the MAJORI" WESTMINSTER ELECTION. SOME strive to wound the virtuous name Of De-n-re's, Dunn's fame, And all the toiling earnest throng, The brunette and the fair. When charms conspire, and join their Who can unmov'd remain ? Let Slander, with her has 'Twas Venus in difg Than beauty's W Firm ref At bea T SHEWETH, : give Happy all. ueclare, close my breath. * Petition of Sir CECIL WRAY, your Petitioner, on mature reflection, Mort humbly conceives he shall lofe his Election, Yet the money fubfcrib'd of great use will be found, And your Petitioner will pray, as in duty he's bound. We have inferteotan merely for their well-meaning, and believe the writer, at the age of 8. femsins through the whole of are certainly inelegant, but a the Bection runs trong DEVONSHIR the compofition, and feems to say with the Primit #ye the virtues of a "Old and young, praife The F 0 ing curious Specimens of Prose versified (for we cannot give the productions the Poetry) are faid to have been wrote by Sir Cecil Wray. Impartiality howus to declare, We do not think fuch peurile composition could ever have been Gentleman; his education having been liberal, and his knowledge of lanadmitted. With this apology we shall give them to our readers as copied • Newspapers. now Lady WRAY) on powdering her hair. Extempore. Familiar Verfes, addressed to two Young Gentlemen at the Hounflow Academy. Take notice, roguelings, I prohibit, Your walking underneath yon gibbet : Have you not heard, my little ones, How do you know, but that there fellow, May step down quick, and you up swallow ? Verses on my own Horse, just after hunting in the manner of Feb's Horse. WITH aged fire, and youthful vigour strung, Oh! my brave, my fleet, my hunting horfe. On CELIA killing a Flea. Thou great epitome of little death, all hail! N. B. The allusion here to the noise made by the animal's fudden death, is beautifully descriptive of a paffing bell. Sir Cecil's knowledge of ancient history appears from the following: 3 U2 LOVE 1 Free and familiar to all worthy friends, Though birth and riches in conjunction strove, By this example, Ladies, learn to live, When eighty years announce approaching death, The lumble Petition of Sir CECIL WRAY, SHEWETH, THAT your Petitioner, on mature reflection, Yet the money fubfcrib'd of great use will be found, * We have inferted the above stanzas merely for their well-meaning, and believe the writer, at the age of 80, seems to have spoke from his heart. They are certainly inelegant, but a kind of patriarchal honesty and affection runs through the whole of the compofition, and feems to say with the Pfalmist, "Old and young, praife "ye the virtues of a DEVONSHIRE!" The |